[ih] TCP

[vinton cerf]

thanks for that reminder, Brian!!

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On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 4:48 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 06-May-24 09:59, Clark Gaylord via Internet-history wrote:
> > Of course we all know the *real* value of that paper: it's the only
> picture
> > of Vint sans vest 😁
>
> By which, I think, you must mean a waistcoat. But surely you are
> overlooking
> the cover of the August 1996 issue of Boardwatch Magazine?
>
> (https://archive.org/details/Boardwatch_10.8_AUG_1996)
>
> Thanks for the reminder, Patrik.
>
>     Brian
>
> >
> > On Sun, May 5, 2024, 05:59 Patrik Fältström via Internet-history <
> > internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> >> 50 years ago today Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn published their paper on
> packet
> >> switching which is the basis for the Internet we use today.
> >>
> >> They did come up with TCP: "Within a HOST we assume that existence of a
> >> transmission control program (TCP) which handles the transmission and
> >> acceptance of messages on behalf of the processes it serves."
> >>
> >> It was published in IEEE Transactions on Communications ( Volume: 22,
> >> Issue: 5, May 1974): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1092259
> >>
> >>> A protocol that supports the sharing of resources that exist in
> >> different packet switching networks is presented. The protocol provides
> for
> >> variation in individual network packet sizes, transmission failures,
> >> sequencing, flow control, end-to-end error checking, and the creation
> and
> >> destruction of logical process-to-process connections. Some
> implementation
> >> issues are considered, and problems such as internetwork routing,
> >> accounting, and timeouts are exposed.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos561/papers/cerf74.pdf
> >>
> >> I think this is the right moment to just say “and the rest is history”.
> >>
> >> Thanks Vint and Bob!
> >>
> >> Patrik
> >>
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